Attitudes towards the Integration of Evidence-Based Practice in Clinical Social Work Education in Egypt, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Palestine and Oman

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     In recent years, there has been a growing interest regarding the integration of evidence-based practice into social work education and practice. This study aims to identify and measure attitudes of clinical social work educators towards integrating EBP in clinical social work education in Egypt and other Arab countries. Seventy-three clinical social work educators were surveyed. Overall, 84.34% of respondents expressed a very positive attitude towards the importance of EBP. Although 73.65% of respondents expressed EBP encounters many strong barriers, 54.22% of respondents rejected of the notion that "EBP is an attempt to induce a state of creative chaos in clinical social work education", while 77.63%% indicted positive attitudes towards the possibility of fulfillment of EBP steps.

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